From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #544 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Thursday, March 12 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 544 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1876 ["Nina Pileggi" ] Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1860 ["Susan E. McNamara" ] RE: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it ["Susan E. McNamara"] Re: New Boxed Set [Anita Gabrielle ] Re: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it [Victor Johnson Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1876 Darn, wish I had Saturday night free, I would head down to the coast. Nina Pileggi - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:09 PM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1876 JMDL Digest Wednesday, March 11 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1876 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- RE: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it ["Susan E. McNamara"] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:32:05 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it Another benefit, too! Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!! :-) - - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Happy The Man Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:27 PM To: joni list Subject: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it Anyone hanging around the North Coast of Oregon here's your Saturday Night Tribute plans. http://northcoastcitizen.com/arts_and_entertainment/back-to-the-garden-a-jon i-mitchell-tribute-concert-march/article_ecc34d96-c385-11e4-bfdf-a7ac255dc52 4.html - - -- *i'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid...* - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1876 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:20:07 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1860 Unfortunately we were not able to get it recorded this year. They were scrambling at the last minute to find someone to do it but it didn't happen. :-( Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 10, 2015, at 10:16 PM, "Rebecca Alexander" wrote: > > Wow --thanks for the review Susan. Any chance this was recorded? I would have > loved to hear this. > Becky in Indiana > > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy NoteB. 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > >
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> > JMDL Digest Tuesday, March 10 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1860 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: Review of 6th Annual Joni Mitchell Tribute, Ithaca, NY [Anita Gabriel] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:28:40 +0000 > From: Anita Gabrielle > Subject: Re: Review of 6th Annual Joni Mitchell Tribute, Ithaca, NY > > Wow,Sue that sounds just amazing! That must have been quite an eclectic mix > and Ephemera sounded particularly intriguing from your review. What a > fantastic night it sounds, > Anita > > > >> On 10 Mar 2015, at 17:39, Susan E. McNamara wrote: >> >> Dear friends, >> >> Actually our tributes started much earlier than 6 years ago, and Ithaca > LOVES >> Joni Mitchell. Patti Witten, my friend, and a wonderful singer/songwriter, >> came up with an idea all those years ago to have an Only Joni Open Mic at a >> local coffee shop called Juna's Cafe. To make a long story short, the > first >> open mic was standing room only with people having to be turned away for >> signups. The first person to perform pretty much set the stage for the > next >> several years of Joni Mitchell tributes in Ithaca. Joe Gaylord, a local > blues >> musician, played The Wolf That Lives In Lindsay in the correct tuning, and >> insisted on audience participation during the wolf howling section. What a >> night! So here we are, two open mics and 5 annual tributes under our belt > to >> March 7, 2015. Again, a full house. >> >> Joe Gaylord is now our impresario, and has coordinated all of the Joni >> Mitchell tributes at the Community School of Music and Arts. All proceeds > go >> to their scholarship fund for music and art students at the school. >> >> The performances this year were all solid, with deep tracks and crowd >> favorites, but the theme to me this year was harmonies. Here is the > setlist: >> >> >> 1. Joe Gaylord, voice and guitar - Rainy Night House and Moon At The >> Window. Joe always captures the soulful feel of Joni's songs, and I love > that >> he jazzed it up on MATW. Beautiful tune! >> >> 2. Me! Sue Tierney McNamara, voice and guitar - I played in FFCGAC >> tuning. I Don't Know Where I Stand and an unreleased tune, Go Tell The >> Drummer Man written around 1966-67. >> >> 3. Joannalyn Delacruz, piano - Joannalyn played a medley of Come In > From >> The Cold and All I Want. An emotional and creative performance. >> >> 4. Kara Eaton, voice and piano, with Donald, bass - Kara is one of > our >> courageous students of Joni's music and played The Boho Dance from Hissing > of >> Summer Lawns. Donald backed her up with a great driving bass line. >> >> 5. Laura Peters, voice and Sergio Pedro, guitar - Laura and Sergio >> performed the crowd pleasers Both Sides Now and Big Yellow Taxi. Laura's >> voice was lovely and Sergio was faithful to Joni's guitar style. >> >> 6. Christine Evans, voice, Timothy, guitar, and Eric Miller, piano. >> Christine and Eric are regulars at the Tributes and are fondly remembered > for >> their authentic version of Woodstock a couple of years ago. Eric brought > his >> beautiful Wurlitzer electric piano to simulate the sound from the Ladies of >> the Canyon version. This year they played See You Sometime, with Eric > superb >> on piano, and Amelia, with Timothy doing an incredible job on electric > guitar, >> reminiscent of Pat Methany from Shadows and Light. Christine's voice was > just >> like a bell as usual. So happy they were here again for this year's > concert. >> >> 7. Five 2 consists of Uniit Carruyo, Charisse Lucente, and Yvette >> Lucente. This trio of amazing women sang Circle Game and Carey with some > of >> the most beautiful harmonies I have ever heard. They really hit it out of > the >> park. >> >> 8. Molly MacMillan, jazz pianist and also a regular at the Tribute >> concerts, always performs yeoman duties of backing up many of our artists > on >> piano. Kudos to Molly for doing that, but her own performances are also > very >> memorable. This year she played Trouble Child and a fantastic version of > The >> Jungle Line with audience participation of ughs and ohhs led by Sue >> Terwilliger. Colleen Kattau also helped out with harmonies on Trouble > Child. >> >> 9. Joe Crookston, a wonderful folk/bluegrass musician from Ithaca was >> invited by Joe Gaylord to participate in this year's event. Joe won Album > of >> the Year by the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN. Joe played a >> stirring version of Woodstock on dobro. He mentioned later that "Joni >> Mitchell is hard!" I've heard many a seasoned musician express the same >> sentiment after preparing for our tributes! >> >> 10. Rachel Ozols is a senior in vocal performance from Ithaca College and >> appeared in the opera, "Little Women" as Jo at Ithaca College in February. >> Rachel performed I Had A King with piano accompaniment. Her voice was >> spectacular! >> >> 11. Patti Witten returned to the Tribute after a two year absence and >> brought with her cellist Sera Smolen to do a haunting rendition of Hejira. > We >> were traveling with Patti and Sera ... >> >> 12. Alice Saltonstall, a wonderful singer, and another regular at the >> Tribute sang one of my favorite songs, I Think I Understand. One of many >> performances on this night that recalled Joni's admonition that you must > "sing >> in character." Alice achieved this exquisitely. Sera Smolen added cello > and >> Molly MacMillan on piano to add to the suspense. >> >> 13. I think the most creative act of the night was Ephemera. This group > of >> women perform improvisational jazz a cappela and they mentioned in their >> introduction that they attended a workshop with Bobby McFerrin. They > opened >> their improvisational piece with Shadows and Light and improvised through >> about 5 more songs, including Come In From The Cold, Woman of Heart and > Mind, >> and Chelsea Morning (i'm forgetting a couple others). So creative and >> powerful. >> >> 14. Colleen Kattau, another regular performer, played guitar and was >> accompanied by Mike Brandt on bass as they sang the two bookends of the > album >> Hejira; Coyote and Refuge of the Roads. Colleen always plays in the > correct >> alternate tuning and actually thanked the Joni Mitchell Database authors > for >> their work! Mike really channeled Jaco Pastorius in this set. Great > songs, >> great musicians. >> >> 15. Sally Ramirez is a very accomplished singer and actress (she revealed >> that she was a nurse on the Young and the Reckless!) and she graciously > helped >> Joe Gaylord and I advertise the Tribute on the Nonesuch folk radio show on >> WVBR the week before the Tribute. Sally sang amazingly on Blue and Carey. >> >> 16. Sue Terwilliger, a wonderful guitarist, closed the show with a > beautiful >> version of River, and called up Molly, Colleen and a member of Ephemera to > do >> harmonies on the finale, Tea Leaf Prophecy. The audience joined in with > the >> refrain "study war no more." >> >> Alas, my favorite night of the year was over, but I loved every minute and > so >> did the sold out crowd. Thanks to Joe Gaylord for doing the heavy lifting > to >> get this Tribute off the ground year after year. The Joni Mitchell fans in >> Ithaca are forever grateful. >> >> >> Sue Tierney McNamara >> Email: sem8@cornell.edu > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1860 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:32:05 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it Another benefit, too! Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!! :-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Happy The Man Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:27 PM To: joni list Subject: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it Anyone hanging around the North Coast of Oregon here's your Saturday Night Tribute plans. http://northcoastcitizen.com/arts_and_entertainment/back-to-the-garden-a-joni-mitchell-tribute-concert-march/article_ecc34d96-c385-11e4-bfdf-a7ac255dc524.html - -- *i'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid...* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:49:57 +0000 From: Anita Gabrielle Subject: Re: New Boxed Set Nice to hear from you,Lynne and welcome! Ray's Dad's Cadillac is a joyful tune isn't it? And a little snippet of trivia is that Ray himself was at Ruby Lake in British Columbia in 2012 where several of us managed to attend an evening with Joni to watch her film "Painting With Words and Music." He was an all round nice fella. We also ate the most incredible food. I was thinking that SF Jazz dinner may well be excellent, but I bet won't be a patch on Aldo's food that evening along the Sunshine Coast. Happy Memories and enjoy JMDL, Lynne, Anita > On 11 Mar 2015, at 02:55, Lynne Florio wrote: > > As a newbie to this group I just have to say I'm loving Joni's new boxed set (though many of you are craving something new from her.) I was raised on a top 40 musical diet so many of these songs are unfamiliar to me. If you've never heard the term "ear worm" before well it's a song that gets stuck in your head that won't go away. "Rays Dads Cadillac" is my ear worm now - can you imagine that crawling around in your head for days? > > Great job by Joni pulling this together and sharing the back stories to some of these songs. I'd really like to see it become a ballet! > > Lynne from jersey > > Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:00:24 -0700 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it About a 5 hour drive from here...just a little too far. Love the Oregon coast though. Victor in Bend On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > Another benefit, too! Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!! :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Happy The Man > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:27 PM > To: joni list > Subject: Another Back to the Garden tribute i'm loving it > > Anyone hanging around the North Coast of Oregon here's your Saturday Night Tribute plans. > > http://northcoastcitizen.com/arts_and_entertainment/back-to-the-garden-a-joni-mitchell-tribute-concert-march/article_ecc34d96-c385-11e4-bfdf-a7ac255dc524.html > > -- > *i'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't > afraid...* ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #544 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe